PURPOSE Cancer screening programs have the potential of intended beneficial effects, but
they also inevitably have unintended harmful effects. In the case of screening …

Outcome measures are considered the most important tools to monitor patients' outcome in
both clinical and research settings. Measuring the clinical state of patients is a fundamental …

Purpose The aim of this study is to search systematically for Patient Reported Outcome
Measures (PROMs) used among patients with multimorbidity. Furthermore, the aim is to …

ObjectiveCritical nutrition literacy (CNL), as an increasingly important area in public health
nutrition, can be defined as the ability to critically analyse nutrition information, increase …

Differential item functioning (DIF) for an item between two groups is present if, for the same
person location on a variable, persons from different groups have different expected values …

Translating patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) can alter the meaning of items
and undermine the PROM's psychometric properties (quantified as cross‐cultural differential …

Background: The 9-item European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior scale (EHFScB-9) is a
self-reported questionnaire commonly used to capture the self-care behavior of people with …

Abstract Purpose The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a self-
assessment 19-item questionnaire developed in the UK to measure foot pain and disability …

Purpose Eight of the ten items of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) have a 'not
relevant'response (NRR) option. There are two possible ways to interpret NRRs: they may …

A recent COSMIN review found that the Victorian Institute of Sports Assessment–Achilles
tendinopathy questionnaire (VISA-A) has flawed construct validity. The objective of the …